PHOTOS: TSA Horror Stories

Wheelchair-Bound Girl Screened for Explosives

The TSA has issued an apology to a Missouri family after their 3-year-old disabled daughter was traumatized at the Missouri's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on Feb. 8, 2013.

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Wheelchair-Bound Girl Screened for Explosives

The TSA has issued an apology to a Missouri family after their 3-year-old disabled daughter was traumatized at the Missouri's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on Feb. 8, 2013.

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Naked Protester vs. Airport Screening

A Texas mom was dumbfounded and angry when her preteen, wheelchair-bound daughter was left sobbing at the security gate at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport when reps from the Transportation Security Administration detected traces of explosive on her hand. Shelbi Walser, 12, has brittle bone disease.

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Man Strips Naked at Airport Screening

Caption - Port of Portland police in Oregon say John E. Brennan, 49, stripped naked at Portland International Airport April 17, 2012, as a protest against airport security screeners. The Portland man was arrested for investigation of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.

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Man Strips Naked at Airport Screening

A woman stripped naked at Denver International Airport April 10, 2012, after being caught smoking in a non-smoking section of the airport. ABC's Denver affiliate reported the incident took place at about 8:45 a.m. on Concourse B.

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Model Refaeli Angry Over Airport Pat-Down

Jennifer Hudson gets a pat-down search while going through TSA security at LAX on her way to Atlanta, April 17, 2012. Hudson made faces such as sticking out her tongue while the TSA agent was behind her.

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Celeb Airplane Antics: Stars' Most Infamous Travel Woes

Bar Refaeli sent out an angry tweet after going through security at the airport. On her @BarRefaeli Twitter account, the supermodel wrote, "I got a security 'patdown' by a woman at the airport that made me feel very uncomfortable and left no doubt about her sexual preferences."

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Boy in Wheelchair Frisked by TSA Agent

Matt Dubiel rediscovered a 2010 video he shot showing his then 3-year-old son, in a wheelchair with a broken leg, being patted down by a Transportation Security Administration agent at a Chicago-area airport. The clip went viral after he uploaded it to YouTube.

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Woman's Breasts Searched by TSA

Lori Dorn, an HR consultant in New York, said TSA agents at JFK touched her breasts in front of other passengers even after she explained that her doctor had inserted tissue expanders for future breast reconstruction. Dorn blogged about the experience on her website, saying it caused "a great deal of humiliation."

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Isis Brantley Hair Patdown by TSA

Hairdresser Isis Brantley was stopped by TSA at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she had passed a scanning device. Brantley told NBC News that she could not go any further until they checked her hair for explosives. "And so she started patting my hair, and I was in tears at that point," she said. "And she was digging in my scalp."

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Six year old gets Patted down by TSA

A six year old girl gets patted down by the TSA at the New Orleans airport. The incident was recorded and posted on YouTube by the girl's parents, April 12, 2011.

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Khloe Kardashian: TSA Searches Are Like Rape

Aaron B. Tobey, 21, protested the TSA's scanners by inking words of the Fourth Amendment -- "The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated" – on his torso. He was arrested by the Richmond International Airport police and charged with disorderly conduct. The police say Tobey "was observed absent of pants, shirt, exposing language regarding the Fourth Amendment."

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'Don't Touch My Junk'

A traveler wears a bikini while going through airport security in Los Angeles.

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The TSA Touched Me Where?

Location-based social media service Foursquare has introduced a new "<a href="http://aboutfoursquare.com/baggage-handler/" target="external">baggage handler</a>" badge to anyone who checks in at the airport with words like "TSA," "touch," "grope," or "don't touch my junk." Once awarded it says: "Looks like you've had your baggage handled. Happy Holidays and have a safe flight!"

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The TSA Touched Me Where?

The TSA's new pat-down rules have come under intense scrutiny recently. Here are just a few examples of people who say the government has gone too far. Cathy Bossi, a longtime flight attendant from South Charlotte and breast cancer survivor said the TSA made her take out her prosthetic breast. "She put her full hand on my breast and said: 'what is this?'"

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The TSA Touched Me Where?

Thomas Sawyer, a bladder cancer survivor, said he was humiliated after a pat down-broke his colonoscopy bag, leaving the 61-year-old covered in his own urine. Sawyer said he warned the TSA officials twice the pat down could break the seal.

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The TSA Touched Me Where?

Tanga.com has this t-shirt for sale in response to complaints made about TSA's new patdown procedures.